“Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.”
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If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.
I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message, ' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.
I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
